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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Steve, I shall leap in - had a weensy inkling about the Gloster anyway (a Brit should be shot if he didn't !)

Try this
 
Lefty has gone back to the fatherland with an Arado Ar 77. (Curiously omitted from Green's Warplanes of the Third Reich).
 
No doubt Lefty is in a noisy pub somewhere with a red nose, sloshing his beer mug around like there is no tommorrow. :friday::icon_lol:

Here is an odd one to take us into 2009 (If anyone is around for the next several hours).

Happy New Year!
 
Well Steve must have done a quick job on those windaes - hope they survive the Arctic winter we are all going to have !

I did have a very brief visit to the pub but actually went with another 10 pals to a pantomime.

Now any of you colonial cousins who have no idea what I am talking about can be forgiven - suffice to say it is great fun for kids and old fogeys alike.

Nice meal in a Breton restaurant in Perth (Scotland) followed by the panto, then a wee snort in our local, followed by The Bells in our neighbours house - lots of drams and kisses (I try to restrict those to the girls)

A Happy New Year to One and All !

PS Steve was right with the Blackburn
 
Another :icon29: for Grumpos. Have at it.

Sounds like you had fun Mike. We are going to get festive here in a little while.
 
Morning all. NO HANGOVER !!! :jump::jump::applause::medals::greenbo:

Right, here's a wee number that qualifies 'cos it is interesting. Well I think so anyway.

Our Moses is the World's Leading Authority on such craft so you'd better grab it quick afore the Kraken wakes.................
 
The Kraken was a bit sluggish this morning. Nice one Ralf! I had not seen that one before.
 
It's a Beechcraft Honey Bee, or at least I hope it is, otherwise, I'll be scraping egg of my face.

Edit, just checked, in one publication it's a Beechcraft, in another a Bee??????????????
 
USA made Bee Aviation Honey Bee. :mixedsmi:

Edit: Sandar beat me to the punch!

Edit 2: I don't think it's a Beechcraft. I have seen "Beecraft", Bee Associates, and Bee Aviation.
 
I think there is a misprint in my book. The picture is the same one as above, with the caption Beechcraft Honey Bee, but in the text it clearly states Beecraft Associates.
 
sandar is surely right! I find the same thing in my sources (printed & net), but do wonder if Beechcraft didn't call it that for a sort of joke? The tail has GOT to be by them...

Anyway, I posted it and I would award the :icon29: to sandar, but maybe we'd better sleuth this...going for a couple of old Janes I've got nearby!
 
Wow! You're right Mo'. Beech Aircraft Corporation, Wichita, KA is distinct from Beecraft Associates Inc. of San Diego, CAL.

But of course it's still sandar's turn, and...


...we've all LEARNT something! :ernae:
 
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